[chrishajer]

Having built sites in both Joomla and WordPress, let me steer you toward WordPress.

You mention:

User Moderation

Comment Moderation

User Profile

User Moderation, not sure what you need to do that’s not built in.

Comment moderation is built in.

This plugin extends the built in user profile:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/extended-user-profile/

I have 10x more confidence that you could do this more easily with WordPress than Joomla and I think I would select WordPress over bbPress for this as well.

What did you see in WordPress that was a limitation for you?

[_ck_]

Another thing that I believe it is that sooner or later bbpress will have a wp plugin version or that it will be a plugin bridge to put it inside of wordpress.

This will never happen because it’s physically impossible as the code is designed. Also the deep integration would use so many resources that a busy forum will get you kicked off of most shared hosts. bbPress 1.0 + WordPress 2.7 running at the same time with deep integration and several plugins is over 1 megabyte of code PER INSTANCE (per user visiting, per page load).

This is why I always say don’t deeply integrate.

However when WordPress eventually switches to the backpress core (think version 3.5 perhaps?) it will be easier to have them deeply integrated without so much excessive resource use.

[Fender]

I am considering that approach as well. Part of the problem I face using WordPress is finding the plugins to allow the user moderation, comment moderation and user profile features I’m after. Perhaps I’m looking in the wrong places for WordPress plugins, I dunno. I’ve been spending most of my time looking at Joomla for another major site replacement so haven’t got much time to explore WordPress.

I mentioned over on _ck_’s forum that I’m willing to pay someone to help me nut this out … whether it’s WordPress comments-based or bbPress matters little to me, I’m just looking for a solution

Cheers,

Chris.

[Famous]

I am a bit confused? I have these in my wp-config for mu.wordpress–do I use these:

define( ‘AUTH_SALT’, ‘gggggggggggggg’ );

define( ‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘ggggggggggggg’ );

define( ‘SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘gggggggggggggggggggggg’ );

or the ones in:

domain.com/wp-admin/options.php

which one’s do I use? They are different from each other…

And then do I just update my phpadmin tables? Currently, I am using the 2nd option, but there is no connection. Thanks

[mikey1]

I have several wordpress blogs and have upgraded all but one to 2.7

I still have one using 2.5.1 to upgrade, which has bbpress 0.9.0.2

linked to it. When will I be able to upgrade, as I’m aware that 2.5.1 has apparently some security issues.

If I upgrade the blog now will I lose he forum, any help greatly Appreciated.

Thanks. Mike.

[ganzua]

I understand famous point of view because I was there too. I’m pretty sure that sooner or later it will be a plugin to give bbpress all mainstream forums features.

Another thing that I believe it is that sooner or later bbpress will have a wp plugin version or that it will be a plugin bridge to put it inside of wordpress.

[chrishajer]

Hopefully, with an active blog, you have a good database backup.

I’m confused on this point:

my bbpress tables are inside of wordpress (obviously)

That’s not obvious to me, at all. Do you mean the bbPress tables are inside the same database where your WordPress tables are? That’s OK. You can put as much stuff as you want into a database, so long as you use different table prefixes for the different applications. For example:

WordPress: wp_

bbPress: bb_

Joomla!: jos_

etc

You can call your database whatever you want, then just keep loading tables into it for different application, like WordPress and bbPress.

If you integrated WordPress and bbPress, then your bbPress installation used two existing WordPress tables: wp_users and wp_usermeta. That’s to allow integrated logins.

Regarding where you put bbPress files, you said you put them into the phpbb directory. Does it look like this?

/var/www/htdocs/website/phpbb3/

/var/www/htdocs/website/phpbb3/bbpress/

If so, someone else recently found that bbPress finds an existing config.php (the one for phpbb3) and won’t go any further. In that case, just rename the phpbb3 config.php to something else for just a minute, so installation can continue.

There is some confusion about database names, table names and folders, for me anyway. Any information you can post to help clarify will help. Thanks.

[ganzua]

I tested 1.06a integration. I created a new user through wordpress and he can post in bbpress.

Let’s see if anybody can confirm this.

[aboutonlinetips]

Chrishajer,

I am using following versions-

WordPress version 2.6.1

bbpress-0.9.0.3

Where to find PHP error Logs? I tried but unable to find it. I am not a techie. I would appreciate if you can sort out the issue.

rgds

Chris

[Sheer Progress]

OK, before I go and mess with this whole thing, are you telling me I should install bbpress inside of phpbb3? I want the tables to be inside wordpress, not phpbb3…I will eventually remove phpbb3. Please confirm that I should be uninstalling the other copy and putting the new one inside of the phpbb3 database and then tell me how that will affect my integration into wordpress and the removing of phpbb3. Thank you.

[Sheer Progress]

I am looking at mySQL and my bbpress tables are inside of wordpress (obviously) but with the bb_ prefix, so what would I be changing it to? There are no bb_ tables inside of phpbb3, which is what that error code indicates, or am I thinking of this wrong?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

FYI – Only three files changed in Trunk

• bb-includesfunctions.bb-users.php
• bb-includesfunctions.bb-meta.php
• bb-adminoptions-wordpress.php

I uploaded those and my version says alpha-6

Check your functions.bb-meta.php file for this:

case 'version' :

return '1.0-alpha-6'; // Don't filter

break;

[ganzua]

Sometime ago I used to think the same, bbpress is too light but when it comes to integrate with wordpress and after having tried another option like simple-forum, I prefer a light core.

Perhaps the problem is the lack of a codex where you can find out how to add things-> do you want email notification? add this plugin.

This should be my only concern so far along with some parts of the core that should be in the template folder. There is stuff in functions.bb-template.php and I recently found more in functions.bb-core.php .

[wmnasef]

i think you are using different prefix for your bbpress tables. if thats it, just modify line 17 in phpbb3tobbress.php into the prefix you used.

again, i wrote that converter assuming the conversion is done on a new empty bbpress installation, not even integrated to wp. integration can be done after conversion according to this post.

[chrishajer]

Why not have a WordPress blog with a single page and comments allowed? With threaded comments in 2.7, it would be even better, IMO, for discussion. No one would be able to create new topics in WordPress.

[Sam Bauers]

This alpha release is to specifically address issues that arose from the last release. In addition I believe that the long standing issues with auto role assignment between WordPress and bbPress are now resolved as well.

Download here

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Are you using a shared DB with WordPress and, if so, did you happen to use Fantastico or some other installer app to install it?

I’ve seen that (latin1_swedish_ci) borking recently with a weird WP install, but not with BBPress.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/

[johnhiler]

@eclipsenow – For now, the bbPress philosophy is to keep those 20 features in plugins and out of the core. But judging from how WordPress has grown in features over time, I’m sure bbPress 2.0 will have all 20 features in the core!

[feastoffools]

Not sure where to post this comment, but I’m wondering if the functionality of having wordpress entries appearing in the forums and comments synchronizing (like bbsync plugin allows) will become a feature of an upcoming release?

[Ben L.]

WordPress needs a plugin to allow you into admin on bbPress. Just search “bbPress Integration” in the plugin search.

[chrishajer]

What version of WordPress?

Have you cleared the cookies?

[ganzua]

how? Where? I think I have everthing setup okay, but everyones account on the bbpress side states:

Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /home/user/public_html/forums/bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php on line 2009

This problem comes from 1.04. I have the same error whenever I want to edit an user;

Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in wampwwwwordpressbbpressbb-includesfunctions.bb-template.php on line 2009

In line 2008 is this code;

// Keymasters can't demote themselves

if ( ( $bb_current_id == $user->ID && $can_keep_gate ) || ( array_key_exists('keymaster', $user->capabilities) && !$can_keep_gate ) )

$roles = array( 'keymaster' => $roles['keymaster'] );

elseif ( !$can_keep_gate ) // only keymasters can promote others to keymaster status

unset($roles['keymaster']);

[Mark-k]

Had anyone had success with alpha 5 (actually r1910) cookie integration with wordpress mu 2.6?

[thugzie]

wordpressfan I tried bbpress 1.0 alpha 4 also. I still had install errors Congrats.